Newsletter – Vol. 30, September 2019
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Call for PhD Thesis Submission & Best PhD Thesis Award
SATs elevated to Technical Area Committees (TACs)
Calendar of Events
EURASIP Seasonal Schools
Open Special Issues
Recent Ph.D. Theses
Job Posts
EURASIP Financial Report 2018
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Call for PhD Thesis Submission & Best PhD Thesis Award
The European Association for Signal Processing created and maintains a database of PhD manuscripts at http://theses.eurasip.org which is one of the world's largest in the area of signal processing. The database interface also shows download statistics and publishes regularly the 10 top downloaded theses.

Every year a committee of experts nominated by the EURASIP Board of Directors selects up to three theses related to different areas of signal processing to be awarded ‘Best PhD Thesis’ awards. The selection process is based on the evaluation of the impact of the theses, their subsequent journal and conference publications and related citations received, and on the review reports of independent reviewers as well as on the download and citation statistics.

In order to select the 2020 best PhD theses, the temporal window of the years 2015 through 2017 is considered. The awards will be presented during the Awards Ceremony at EUSIPCO 2020. Each award consists of a certificate and of a travelling & accommodation reimbursement of 1K Euros for attending the Awards Ceremony.

If you want to make your PhD thesis available in the EURASIP database, visit the site http://theses.eurasip.org and upload your thesis.
contributed by Kostas Berberidis, EURASIP Director for Awards back to top
SATs elevated to Technical Area Committees (TACs)
During the last few months, Björn Ottersten, EURASIP Director for Technical Activities, has worked with the Special Area Teams (SATs) reviewing the objectives and responsibilities of these structures.

As the technical activities of EURASIP expand, the responsibilities of our SAT members are increasing in scope and significance — the work by these volunteers is critical for the success of our technical activities (publications, awards, conferences, workshops, seasonal school, etc.). To reflect these changes and following many discussions, the EURASIP Board of Directors have elevated the SATs to Technical Area Committees (TACs).

The name change is with immediate effect and the current members of the SATs remain as members of the TACs.
The new objectives and responsibilities of the TACs are described in the TAC definition on the EURASIP website. The Chairs of the TACs make up the Technical Activities Board, chaired by the Director for Technical Activities.
contributed by Björn Ottersten, EURASIP Director for Technical Activities back to top
Calendar of EURASIP Co-Sponsored Events
Event organizers who wish to apply for EURASIP co-sponsorship should send an e-mail to the EURASIP Director for Technical Programs and Membership, containing the following information: (1) Name of the conference/workshop, (2) Place and dates, (3) Previous editions of the conference/workshop, (4) Previous co-sponsorship, (5) Expected number of attendees, (6) Names of plenary speakers, (7) A rationale as to why EURASIP should sponsor the conference/workshop.
Reports of past EURASIP co-sponsored events can be found on the 'Past Conferences' webpage.
Name & Link Date Location
SpeD 2019, 10th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue Oct. 10-12, 2019 Timisoara, Romania
MDS 2019, Workshop on Mathematical Data Science (MDS) 2019 Oct. 13-15, 2019 Dürnstein, Austria
EUVIP 2019, 8th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing Oct. 28-31, 2019 Rome, Italy
ICPRAM 2020, 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods
(Paper submission deadline: Oct. 4, 2019)
Feb. 22-24, 2020 Valletta, Malta
BIOSIGNALS 2020, 13th International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing
(Paper submission deadline: Oct. 4, 2019)
Feb. 24-26, 2020 Valletta, Malta
ICISP 2020, 9th International Conference on Image and Signal Processing
(Paper submission deadline: Jan. 12, 2020)
Jun. 4-6, 2020 Marrakech, Morocco
EUSIPCO 2020, 28th European Signal Processing Conference
(Paper submission deadline: Feb. 21, 2020)
Aug. 24-28, 2020 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2020 IEEE Radar Confernce , Renaissance meets advancing technology
(Paper submission deadline: Mar. 30, 2020)
Sep. 21-25, 2020 Florence, Italy
contributed by Jean-Yves Tourneret, EURASIP Director for Technical Programs and Membership back to top
EURASIP Seasonal Schools

The EURASIP BoD welcomes proposals from prospective organizers of seasonal schools. For more information, click here.
Reports of past EURASIP Seasonal Schools can be found on the Seasonal Schools webpage.
contributed by Jean-Yves Tourneret, EURASIP Director for Technical Programs and Membership back to top
Open Special Issues of EURASIP Journals
If you are interested in organizing a special issue in one of the EURASIP journals, please contact the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.
Signal Processing: Image Communication Deadline
Computational Image Editing
Jan. 15, 2020
Visual Information Processing for Underwater Images and Videos: Theories, Algorithms, and Applications
May. 1, 2020
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Deadline
Recent advances and applications of time-frequency signal analysis Oct. 15, 2019
Biomedical Informatics with Optimization and Machine Learning 2019 Dec. 31, 2019
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Deadline
Advanced Networking Technologies for Next Generation Wireless Networks Oct. 30, 2019
Physical Layer Security Solutions for 5G-and-Beyond Nov. 1, 2019
New application domains for the cognitive-based solutions in the context of 5G and beyond Dec. 6, 2019
Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods for Wireless Network Applications Dec. 31, 2019
Green Communication for Heterogeneous Internet of Things Dec. 31, 2019
Distributed Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Heterogeneous Edge Computing Feb. 28, 2020
Networking, Caching and Computation Issues in UAV-Enabled B5G Wireless Communication May 5, 2020
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing Deadline
Advances in Audio Signal Processing for Robots and Drones Dec. 1, 2019
EURASIP Journal on Information Security Deadline
New Advances on Intelligent Multimedia Hiding and Forensics Apr. 30, 2020
contributed by Toon van Waterschoot, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top
Recently submitted Ph.D. Theses in EURASIP Library
Author Title & Link University Supervisors Publication Year
Charlton, Peter Continuous respiratory rate monitoring to detect clinical deteriorations using wearable sensors King's College London Jordi Alastruey, Richard Beale, David Clifton 2019
Boussé, Martijn Explicit and implicit tensor decomposition-based algorithms and applications KU Leuven Lieven De Lathauwer 2019
contributed by Toon van Waterschoot, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top
Job Posts
EURASIP encourages employers to post open research positions in Signal Processing on the EURASIP Job Site.
Open positions will be continuously accessible online and will be advertised monthly in the EURASIP Newsletter.
Open Positions Institution Location Closing Date
PhD Student "Computational Auditory Scene Analysis algorithms" University of Oldenburg, Dept. of Medical Physics and Acoustics Oldenburg, Niedersachsen, Germany Oct. 11, 2019
Research Associate "MIMO acoustic earpiece for combined equalization, feedback cancellation and noise reduction" University of Oldenburg, Dept. of Medical Physics and Acoustics Oldenburg, Niedersachsen, Germany Oct. 11, 2019
Postdoctoral Researcher in radionavigation and wireless communication systems University of California, Irvine Irvine, California, United States Oct. 15, 2019
PhD Position in Distributed Signal Processing for Resilient IoT/CPS NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway Oct. 20, 2019
Postdoc in image processing / video surveillance EURECOM Sophia Antipolis Biot, Alpes-Maritimes, France Jan. 1, 2020
contributed by Toon van Waterschoot, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top
EURASIP Financial Report 2018
The 2018 Financial Report was approved by the EURASIP General Assembly on June 3, 2019. All amounts are in Euro.
Income reported in 2018 Expenses reported in 2018
Membership 34,993 Awards 10,671
Elsevier royalties 25,000 Seasonal schools 10,150
Springer royalties 19,848 Seminars 700
EUSIPCO donation 20,000 Student activities 10,096
Bank interests 106 Administrative, legal & technical support 17,226
EUSIPCO organization support 13,493
BoD meeting costs 12,052
Taxes & bank costs 76
TOTAL 99,947 TOTAL 74,464
contributed by Toon van Waterschoot, EURASIP Director for Finance and Operations back to top
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